The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

In 1930s Edinburgh, the charismatic and dangerous schoolteacher Jean Brodie grooms her chosen set of six girls in art, romance and her own admiration for Mussolini, until one of them betrays her. Spark's city is her own: the genteel girls' school of the south side, the walk Brodie leads through the poverty of the Old Town, the Links and Meadows where the set parades, and the village of Cramond on the Forth where the music master lives.

Jean Brodie

Marcia Blaine School

Chapter 1

At the Marcia Blaine School, Miss Brodie takes her chosen ten-year-olds out of the ordinary curriculum and into her own: her love affairs, her holidays in Italy, her admiration for the fascist leaders. The Brodie set is formed here, six girls marked out to be, she tells them, the crème de la crème.

Chapter 1

inferred The girls' school where Brodie teaches, Marcia Blaine, is invented but drawn from James Gillespie's High School for Girls, which Spark attended; sited in the Bruntsfield area of the south side where such schools stood.

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